Stephen Coogan
Staff Software Engineer at Personio
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolStephen Coogan is a staff software engineer based in Dublin with 13 years of hands-on front-end experience, currently shaping frontend architecture and delivery at Personio. He’s passionate about web standards, free/open tech, and building polished, performant interfaces—often advocating testing-first practices and component-driven design to enable rapid, low-incident releases. Previously he led front-end architecture at CarTrawler, where he drove a monorepo, comprehensive testing (unit, E2E, visual), Lighthouse CI, and a framework-agnostic design system that bridged Engineering and Design. Known wryly on GitHub as a “Professional Mistake Maker,” he combines pragmatic experimentation with disciplined engineering to ship reliable UIs at scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Server-side Technologies, Certificate, Server-side Technologies at National College of Ireland
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Github Skills (94)
tencent10
estate10
github-pages10
responsive10
static-files10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
home-assistant9
world-of-warcraft9
aws9
saas9
documentation9
azure8
azerothcore8
paas8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
coogie/oscailte
Jun 2013 - Nov 2022
Oscailte — A powerful light, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme.
Contributions:14 releases, 158 commits, 15 PRs in 9 years 5 months
ruby-gemlightresponsive-jekyll-themecleanremote-theme
coogie/coogie.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
Static files for my personal site
Contributions:84 commits, 39 PRs, 106 pushes in 7 years 11 months
static-files
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